A 2-hour seminar on Teaching College Writing—focused toward MFA students/alumni interested in teaching Freshman Composition, but open to anyone who would like to attend—will be held on Saturday, August 4, from 10am to 12pm at the Lindenwood Cultural Center Conference Room. The seminar will be led by Beth Mead, LU MFA Program Director.

To help support The Lindenwood Review, this seminar will be offered to registrants for the purchase of two issues of TLR Issue 2 ($7 each, for a total of $14, checks made payable to Lindenwood University), with the request that one of the issues (or both, if you already own a copy) be given to a friend, family member, co-worker, acquaintance, or left in your dentist’s office waiting room, or in some other way shared with someone who would be interested in reading it. More than two issues may be purchased at the reduced rate of $5 each to further support the journal if desired.

Registrants will receive a portfolio of handouts detailing the topics covered in the seminar, a Lindenwood pen, and their purchased issues of The Lindenwood Review. Light refreshments will be served, and attendees are also welcome to bring their own drinks and snacks. At the conclusion of the seminar, a Question & Answer session will be held, and registrants may also bring a CV for personal feedback from the seminar leader if desired (please plan to stay later than 12pm if you would like individualized CV feedback).

The seminar will cover both Getting the Job and Teaching the Class:

Getting the Job

creating a CV/resume

writing a cover letter

applying for adjunct positions

preparing for the interview

building experience to work toward applying for full-time positions

Teaching the Class

writing a syllabus

structuring lesson plans

managing class time

five things freshman comp students need to learn

common errors in grammar and punctuation

sample assignments

sample in-class activities

sample prewriting exercises

using creative writing experience as a tool for engaging students

Current LU MFA students and other LCIE students who register for this event may use it to fulfill the summer quarter colloquium requirement.

TO REGISTER:
Mail the information below, along with a check for $14 (made payable to Lindenwood University), to Lindenwood University, Attn: Beth Mead, 400 N. Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301.

NAME

EMAIL (registration confirmation will be sent via email; please print clearly or type)

NUMBER OF TLR2 ISSUES YOU ARE PURCHASING (minimum of 2, for a total of $14; make checks payable to Lindenwood University; issues will be distributed at the seminar)

WHAT ASPECT OF TEACHING COLLEGE WRITING ARE YOU MOST INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT AT THE SEMINAR?

Awards include a Pushcart Prize nomination for her poem "The Juke" in Kansas City Voices, 2011; the Missouri Writers' Biennial Award of $5000 for essay writing; First Place, James M. Nash competition, St. Louis Poetry Center, 2010; First Place, Midwest Writing Center's annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest, 2009; an Academy of American Poets award; and the Washington University Graduate Teaching Fellowship in Poetry

Poetry and fiction have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Echo Ink Review, Poetry Quarterly, Fjords, Abridged, Other Poetry, Lyre Lyre, The Blue Sofa Review, WomenArts Quarterly, The Caper Review, It Has Come to This: Poets of the Great Mother Conference, Foliate Oak, Greatest Lakes Review, Lugh Review (where she was the featured author), Blackmail Press, The Chaffy Review, Euphony and elsewhere. She has been the featured poet for Desperanto Press’s segment “Tea With George” for September 2011. Her fiction has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she was a finalist for the 2011 Rebecca Lard Award.

Served as the Managing Editor of Natural Bridge, Founder of the Graduate Writers Reading Series for the University of Missouri St. Louis, and Managing Editor for Words for Open: an anthology series for and of the special needs and autism spectrum

Author of: Night Times, a memoir, to be published in 2015 by Walrus Publishing

Working on: The Magician's Girl: the alchemical marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and Fixed Stars Govern a Life: interpreting the work of Sylvia Plath through tarot and mysticism

Awards: Second Place, 2007 Raymond Carver Short Story Award; First and Second Place winner, 2007 St. Louis Writers Guild Poetry Award; First place winner, 2007 Writers Guild Fiction Award; nominated for the 2009 Stanley Hanks Poetry Award; and others

Presentations: Presenting on Plath's "A Secret" at the Lawrence Durrell Centenary, London, England, June 2012. Presenting on Plath's "Ariel" at the Sylvia Plath Symposium, Indiana University, October 2012, and others

Poetry and prose has appeared in: Plath Profiles, The Arkansas Review Journal of Delta Studies, MARGIE: the American Journal of Poetry, and others